Professor Gerald Francis Misinzo, a distinguished expert in veterinary medicine, virology, and public health, was honoured with a prestigious award as a prominent researcher at the 9th National Science, Technology and Innovation Conference and Exhibitions (STICE) organised by the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH). The award was presented by the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania and Minister of Energy Honourable Dr. Doto Mashaka Biteko (MP) during the STICE opening ceremony held on 02 December 2024 at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre in Dar es Salaam. The conference, themed “Harnessing Science, Technology, and Innovation for Climate Resilience and Competitive Economy”, provided a platform to celebrate Misinzo’s remarkable contributions to addressing global health challenges.
Champion of Global Health: Professor Gerald Francis Misinzo
The award marks a pivotal moment in recognizing Professor Misinzo’s groundbreaking research in addressing societal challenges, particularly in the fields of veterinary virology and public health that address infectious diseases. His research, which has had a profound and lasting socio-economic impact both within Africa and globally, is hinged on the application and deployment of genomics at the community-level. To this end, his research group used next-generation sequencing to identify Leptospira in humans and cattle during the hemorrhagic disease in Ruangwa in July 2022. Over a decade, has also tracked the spread along the major highways of a very lethal African swine fever genotype from the Southern highlands of Tanzania to central, Eastern and North-Western Tanzania, up to Rwanda.
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